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Sunday, 3 August 2014

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Frames issued Ukrainian media for recording with American satellites are the screenshots of the computer game Flaming Cliffs 2.
This is not the first time that the Ukrainian side, distorting facts, gives some pictures or videos for others.

In the past two days in the Ukrainian media actively discussed video allegedly proving that the shooting in Ukraine from Russia. However, attentive internet users quickly unmasked another "duck" - footage issued by Ukrainian journalists for recording from American satellites are the screenshots of the computer game Flaming Cliffs 2.

July 29 Tsenzor.Net portal and other Ukrainian media reported the news that the United States satellites recorded shelling the territory of Ukraine from the Russian Federation. Materials illustrated by videos and screenshots allegedly from American satellites.

However, on the same day meticulous users of social networks have managed to get to the truth. Footage issued Ukrainian media for recording with American satellites are the screenshots of the computer game Flaming Cliffs 2.

Photo: screenshot of the game Flaming Cliffs 2

This is not the first time that the Ukrainian side, distorting the facts, gives one a picture or video for others. For example, July 19, on the site of the Security Service of Ukraine reported that the allegedly on the orders of Russia "all air defense system" Buk "are exported from Ukraine back into the Russian Federation." However, users of social networks have noticed that one of the photos illustrate this news is a screenshot of a video taken in March 2014. The footage can be seen from the road melted snow, people in winter clothes and install " Beech ", belonging to the Ukrainian army. On March photographs Ukrainian "Buk" was a 312-m number. The site appeared SBU photo where "Buk", this time for alleged Russian, also marked as the 312th.

Later Ukrainian users of social networks have tried to blame the marauding militias DNR, working in the area of the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing 777. «Terrorists looting the wreckage of a downed their aircraft," - commented on them a photograph in which the DNI militia, who arrived at the crash site of a Malaysian Boeing 777, is holding a toy monkey, belonging to one of the dead passengers. However, a video of the event, laid out on YouTube, showed that the militia, called a "terrorist" and "looters" demonstrates toy OSCE observers and reporters gathered at the scene. "Let the bastards see who they bring down. See ?! "- says the fighter, holding a monkey in front of cameras. After that, he carefully placed the toy on to other things, removed the hat and crossed himself.

The satellite image on the left was provided by the Russian Defense Ministry on 14 July, 2014. On the right is the image that Kiev claims were taken by its satellites on July 16, 2014. Image from mil.ru

Satellite images Kiev published as ‘proof’ it didn’t deploy anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site carry altered time-stamps and are from days after the MH17 tragedy, the Russian Defense Ministry has revealed.

The images, which Kiev claims were taken by its satellites at the same time as those taken by Russian satellites, are neither Ukrainian nor authentic, according to Moscow's statement.

The Defense Ministry said the images were apparently made by an American KeyHole reconnaissance satellite, because the two Ukrainian satellites currently in orbit, Sich-1 and Sich-2, were not positioned over the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Region shown in the pictures.

Moscow claims weather and lighting conditions in the images were not possible at the dates and times Ukraine claims they were made, the Russian ministry said.

At least one of the images published by Ukraine shows signs of being altered by an image editor, the statement added.

The ministry also criticized images published by Kiev to back its allegations that Russia smuggled heavy weapons over the border and shelled Ukrainian army positions.

The images lack proper time stamps and coordinates, while Kiev didn’t bother to explain why it believes that whatever vehicles are shown in them are Russian, the statement said.

“It’s the latest ‘masterpiece’ in the Ukrainian exercise in conspiracy theories, an attempt to divert responsibility,” the ministry said.

“It can take a deserved place next to other allegations against Russia voiced by Kiev that claimed that Russia was responsible for masterminding the Maidan protest and the tragedy in Odessa.”

“Apparently that’s why the real owners of those photos are hesitating to publish them under their own name, since it would derail the myth of the omniscience of their space reconnaissance,” the Russian ministry said.

Image from mil.ru

A comparison of satellite images published by Russia and Ukraine as presented by Kiev in an attempt to dispute the authenticity of Moscow’s photos. The shadows are cast in different directions in the two images, proving that they could not have been almost at the same time two days apart, as indicated by the time stamps.

Image from mil.ru

The weather is also clearly different, with the Russian image showing a cloudy day, while the image presented by Kiev shows a clear day - showing that the images could not have been taken less than an hour apart, as claimed by the time stamps. The Russian military say the actual weather conditions at the time can be easily double-checked by independent sources.

Image from mil.ru

In another comparison with the images used by Ukraine, it was purposely degraded in quality in order to point out some irregularities. No such irregularities are present in the original image, the Russian military said.

Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, which is engulfed by armed hostilities between Ukrainian troops and local militias. The plane was apparently shot down by a missile, although neither the type of missile nor who shot it has yet been properly established.

As a troubled investigation into the tragedy, which claimed almost 300 lives, is underway, Kiev and some Western countries were quick to say that the militias and Russia were culpable for the deed. Kiev said it had no capabilities to take down the plane.

The Russian Defense Ministry published satellite images and radar data, saying that evidence proved that Ukraine had both ground-based anti-aircraft batteries and military aircraft capable of firing an air-to-air missile deployed in the region on the day of the MH17 shoot-down.

Some days later Kiev published its own set of images, claiming that those released by Russia were false.